Taibbi: Why Michael Wolff's Book Is Good News

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4. "But it's hard to imagine Trump focusing long enough..."

"... to enact a plan as destructive as, say, the invasion of Iraq."

Problem is, it doesn't take much (or any) planning to result in much worse. It's easy to imagine Trump, in a momentary fit of pique at a North Korean missile test that came too close to, say, Japan, orders a cruise missile strike on their launch complex. Kim Jong-Un interprets it as the first strike in an inevitable U.S. invasion and launches his nukes. We retaliate, and then China, seeing us as having begun the conflict, follow-through on their promise to defend North Korea in the event of U.S. aggression.

It doesn't take any focus or planning to start a nuclear WWIII -- just a hairtrigger temper and lack of sufficient intelligence to calculate the consequences. And Mad King Donald has both of those in spades.